> Ignore the haters (who sadly have become extremely common on HN now).
Nobody is hating anyone here, I don’t know where you got that from.
They are asking Brendan to be honest.
It is fine to say it is about the money.
But it is silly, borderline patronising to tell readers that you’re “saving the world” because you got a job at OpenAI.
Re:Why I Joined OpenAI
by raymond_goo on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:11AM
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Ah, so you you see into the future, got it!
I loved your work back when I was an IC, and I'm sure this is a common sentiment across the industry amongst those of us who started systems adjacent! I still refer to your BPF tools and Systems Performance books despite having not written professional code for years now.
Can't wait to read content similar to what you wrote about when at Netflix and Intel albeit about the newer generation of GPUs and ASICs and the newer generation of performance problems!